Coverdesign und Posterdesign

My first job for a record sleeve was in 1991 for a Rap-Project of a Youthclub Lohwald in Offenbach, Germany called 3.rd Generation with the Anti War-track ”Stop It”. At this time without computing but done with a xerox.

The Embargo and the Air-Embargo were very own freaky, but nice Shops in the early electronical Musicyears of Techno in Frankfurt. For the Owner Mike Hoppe I did a lot of artwork. He was responsible for a lot of projects and Releases like PCP and a lot of more. So I did also a Shirt for Harthouse DJ Sven Vaeth in 1991.

DJ Cutmaster GB from Frankfurt and James Rocco together with MC Cal Ski (both from the US) started in 1992 with a Song about Graffiti and Stylewriting Ghetto Michelangelo, which is legendary today. At the backside was a track by Hi-Style with Chubby B/Alexander J. Beck and DJ Meister H.

For further Releases of the Label Earth´s Edge I did the Artwork of the Sleevedesign as simple as possible. Also the productioncosts were cheep, because of the one-color print on a red sleeve.

While my Main-Traineeship of my Design degree course at University of applied sciences Darmstadt, I had the honor to work under the leadership of Sascha Müller-Lüönd and Eike König at the Art Department at Logic Records (Dr. Alban, Snap, Rozalla, Leila K.) in 1993.

At the Art Department of Logic bustled a lot of funny Persons, like US-Rapper Lil DEE. For him I did in 1993 from photographic negatives a Longsleeve Cover in 300 dpi. A real mess at that time. So I retouched his eyes, because of the bad solution of the scanpossibility.

Also Frederik Hahn a.k.a. Torch asked me to take hands on the Artwork of the 12″ HipHop/Rap Classic Futura 2000 „The Escapades of Futura 2000”. The Redesign did Leonard McGurr (Futura himself), but they werent printable and in the wrong format. So I rebuildt the whole Artwork in 1996.

Virgin Records France used Graffiti-Artwork by me for the Rap Sampler 100% Rap francais in 1997. Legal steps against them had the 50% costs in advance payment for the french Lawyers -with questionable result. Sadly my only evidence-example were lost by the Frankfurt-located law office-without taking responsibility.

Wrecked Mob from Luzern was a legendary Swiss Rapband, just similar with the german Die Fantastischen Vier. Members of the band were also Members of my Writing Crew GBF. Wrecked Mob was MC ZORA (Bianca Litscher/Sukibamboo), SHARK, (Harun Dogan/Rawcut/Grafik ). Also for ZORA as for SHARK I did a few Artwork.

Via Martin Kühnel I did a unusual Cover for the Amos Vinyl-Coverprojekt. I did the Typography from sawdust and the backside was scratching out of a wax crayon painting. Hundret of artists created handmade individual items of the Artwork of AMOS‘ „Showtime“. Each Designer defined the Selling Price. This Project get the IF communication design award 2011, maybe rightly.

When we started our Agency for Communication & Design Headlab in 2000, we realized a nice printproject: Frankfurt Hip Hop ohne Worte. A book about the Frankfurt-placed Rapscene with photos by Karsten Roth. Thorsten TODO Hormann did the layout and myself did the Graffititags and spraypainted the Illustration-pieces for the Cover. Each book cost 15,- Deutschmark. 3 of that we donated for Youthplaces in Frankfurt.

Christiane zu Salm, at this time 2000 MTV CEO spoke to me about her bookproject about german Rap, which Klaus Mai/KM7 in 2001 realised. Klaus asked me to do some designs for the Book Hip Hop XXL. So I did a few illustrations and tags.

After the Corporate Design for the Vielflieger Verlag e.K. a Kidsbook publisher by Felix Busse, I was decided in 2009 to do a 40-sider Book Die Kleine Giraffe Guckindieluft auf Weltreise as Limited Edition. (ISBN-10: 3981222717 ISBN-13: 978-3981222715)

Some Events located in Dusseldorf, called Grasshopper get some Artwork by me on Handouts/Flyer in 1993. That was the first application fo my selfgenerated font Essohnesenf for the Grasshopper Logo Artwork.

Jürgen Ziemer from the Prinz Magazine) and Jean Trouillet instructed me 1993 to generate the Artwork of the Kill Racism with a groove Hip Hop Jam in Frankfurt. I did the DIN A5 Handout and a DIN A 1 Poster.

In Cooperation with the Frankfurter Jugendring and the US consulate in Frankfurt I concieved 2007 the Photoexhibition Hip Hop 4 elements-one culture/ Photos of the Beginning of Hip Hop culture in Frankfurt and New York at the new City-libary of Frankfurt. Therefore we invited Hip Hop Photographer and Legend Martha Cooper from New York City.

Before I left my agency Oxygen I produced in 1997 a DIN A2 sized Graffiti-Wall-Calendar as a succesful Innovation, because it has a lot of follower until now. Today every Spraycanproducing-Company uses that idea for pushing their products.